And then there was light!

My Hubby recently installed the new light fixture we purchased for our main entryway. Nothing too exciting, but it definitely makes a big difference.

Here are a couple befores:

Ewww...old, gold/brassy fixture that was almost certainly original to the house, which was built back in 1994. I HATE brass - it is my mortal enemy & I am slowly waging & winning the battle of the brass in this house. Literally EVERYTHING is brass - I mean the fixtures, door knobs, towel bar in the powder room, door/cabinet hardware on the kitchen cabinets...everything. So, we are slowly, but surely switching out everything for things with a shiny nickle/silver finish.

So, without further adieu - here are the afters:

Light, woot! PS - please ignore the outline of the old fixture on the ceiling - I have a request in to my uncle to paint our ceilings. He is a professional painter & frankly, I just REALLY don't want to paint the ceilings...I'm a little scared & a lot of "I just don't feel up to it". Contrary to what one might think, I hate painting altogether really. Anywho, the fixture was from Lowes for like $30 & I like it a lot more than what we had before - it's a lot more modern, uses energy efficient bulbs & is much brighter!

In other D&R news, we are hard at work (at least we will be come tomorrow morning) on our MBath re-do! I got the over the toilet storage nook in from Overstock the other day & I'm excited for everything to come together.

Happy Halloween!!! Stay safe tonight. :o)

Pumpkin Carving!!

I don't know about you, but I LOVE the fall! The look, smell, food, everything about it is great...especially anything related to pumpkins! Ever since I was a kid, we used to carve pumpkins for Halloween & I so looked forward to it! And even though I am far from being a kid anymore, I still love carving pumpkins into jack-o-lanterns! This year the hubbs & I decided to do two jack-o-lanterns:

The spooky ghost...I named him Harry!

And a J - for our last initial!

Here are some others of us carving the pumpkins, which btw, we got for $4.99 each at our local grocery store:

Please note my husband's critical pumpkin carving tools: 1) design template, 2) pumpkin carving tools, 3) BEER - a must have when performing domestic duties requested by your wife (according to him anyways, lol). ;o)

And the last with Dizz greeting at the door:

I would love to see your jack-o-lanterns, please share in the comments section of this post if you have links! Also, in other World of Dennifer news - a VERY exciting development coming soon (& no, I'm not pregnant...yet, lol). Now I'm off to go make some yummy pumpkin spice cheesecake - try the recipe, it's divine! Happy Halloween!

I have been such a bad blogger!

It has been nearly 3 weeks since I updated the blog - the reason?? I have been SUPER busy & unfortunately not with D&R work - I have had a lot going on. I am ashamed to say that we have not even begun our big master bath makeover project. We have been slackers, but I promise pics later this week/this weekend of some sort of progress - hopefully the walls will be painted. In the mean time, here are a few items we bought for the big makeover:

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I sent the Hubbs to Home Depot to buy something small (I can't even remember what it was), but he came back with all these beauties - new shower caddy shelving, a double towel bar & double shower curtain rod! We also plan to buy a new shower head, new faucets (haven't picked those out yet) & replace the vanity lighting with something like this from Lowes:

I also attended a friend's candle party last weekend & bought this "Change-O-Luminary" for the counter top in the bathroom. I heart it because you can change out the screens for each season.

I got a coupon in the mail yesterday for free shipping from JCP, so I want to buy that over toilet storage tower I mentioned in my last post & get it shipped for free. Free is always good! My husband is going out of town on a boys trip to Las Vegas next week, so I really want to get all of the painting done in the bathroom before he leaves. That way I can paint all the trim & prime the vanity to be painted & then he can put up all the new stuff when he gets home.

Stay tuned for this year's Jack-O-Lanterns - we have gotten a late start & plan on carving them tonight when my hubby gets home! Eeeek - I LOVE carving pumpkins! OH & I got my new lap top on Monday!!! I love it & am still playing around with it, trying to figure out how everything works on HPs (I have always owned/used Dells) & to get all my old files moved over, but all in all, it's GREAT! Anywho, hopefully I will have more to share between tonight & the next few days. Thanks for stopping by! :o)

Plans for my Master Bath

Since we finally finished our Master Bedroom, I think it's time to move on to our Master Bath. I have convinced my H to go to Lowes today to pick up the paint. We also want to pick out the paint for his mancave AKA the basement (more to come on that project soon). I want to paint our Master Bath the same color as our bedroom ("Granite Dust" by Valspar) since the two are connected & I heart the color. Then I want to pmb do exactly what Mrs. Foot over at The Proudfeet did with her vanity/mirror area:

She painted her vanity black, added hardware to the vanity, replaced the sink hardware & framed the large mirror with crown moulding (also painted black). Our Master Bath vanity/sink is exactly like hers & I have been lusting over this project for a while & now that the major rooms are done for the most part & the house is all decorated for the Fall, I think it's time to finally get to it!

I also want to buy the Spacesaver & Hamper Bench in black from the Louvered Bath Furniture Collection & some monogrammed JCPenney Towels in seascape at JCP. During my little shopping spree last weekend, I bought this piece of inspirational wall art from Kohls:

I think it's going to look great against the wall where the towel bar is. I also want a new tension rod shower caddy because ours is getting a little rusted (we have had it for 2 years & it's time to replace it), I like this chrome one at Target & it's a reasonable price, so that's probably what we will go with. Finally, I plan on getting some baskets to organize under the cabinets.

Here are some before's of the bathroom:

Stay tuned for the after's...I am so excited to finish this project. Oh & before I forget, guess what I just ordered yesterday?!? A *NEW* lap top, woo hoo...it's this little beauty:

It's the HP Pavilion dv6t series & I added a few extras, including Microsoft Office/Student & Adobe Photoshop (which I have never used, but hear is amazing!); we also bought a all-in-one printer/copier/scanner from HP. I am so excited - my current personal computer is a 2002 Dell desktop - it's ancient & SLOW (printer is just as old), but still works so I am giving it to my little brother to play computer games on. Anyways, my new baby gets shipped on October 12th & I am thrilled!!